The sustainable city, by Steven Cohen

Data Governance in the Sustainable Smart City

The wisdom of ‘smart’ development increasingly shapes urban sustainability in Europe and beyond. Yet, the ‘smart city’ paradigm has been critiqued for favouring technological solutions and business interests over social inclusion and urban innovation. Despite the rhetoric of ‘citizen-centred approaches’ and ‘user-generated data’, the level of stakeholder engagement and public empowerment is sti...

By Steven Jacobson , Gerald

The HLA D/DR region of the human major histocompatibility complex encodes a family of highly polymorphic, human "Ia-like" molecules that function as genetic restriction elements in a variety of immune phenomena (1, 2). Correlations have been demonstrated between disease susceptibility and particular HLA D/DR antigens (1, 3, 4). Recent evidence (5-7) has demonstrated a considerable heterogeneity...

Interpreting the Regulatory Geography of Sustainable Development: the Rise of the Sustainable City in the Uk

Ecological city and urban sustainable development

Abstract: Sustainable development is a new concept of scientific development, sustainable development requires us to change not only the concept of economic development, but also requires us to change the concept of social development. Development of the city as a social development and economic development is an important embodiment of the process of sustainable development but also in pursuit...

Bangkok: Are Industries Generating a Sustainable City?

Economic development is composed of processes of structural transformation such as industrialization and urbanization. Demonstrating Thailand's success in pursuing economic development is the increase in real GDP per capita from $985 in 1960 to $6,970 in 1990. However, this has not been without negative side effects, especially in the central node of the economy, Bangkok. Indeed, industrial pol...